Teaching Assistant Level 3 - Ysgol Gymraeg Penygroes

About the Vacancy

We adopt an ‘anonymous recruitment’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made.

We are committed to recruiting, retaining, and developing a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Sharing your equality monitoring data allows us to assess the impact our recruitment and employment policies and practices have and gives us the opportunity to improve them where possible. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

Vacancy : 3550

Organisation: Schools

Number of vacancies: 1

Contract type: Temporary/Secondment - Full Time

Contract end date: 31 August 2027

Location: Ammanford

Grade: Grade E +4%

Hourly Rate: £14.23 – £15.92

Contract

Hours:

27 hours 30 minutes

If part time and/or term time, the full time salary quoted (based on 37hrs) will be pro‑rated accordingly.

The Headteacher and Governing Body of Ysgol Gymraeg Penygroes wish to appoint an experienced and committed Teaching Assistant. The applicant must be highly motivated, creative, willing to work hard, and possess the interpersonal skills needed to complement the school’s happy and conscientious teaching team.

Level 4 – You will need to be able to communicate effectively in Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level. An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be requested for this job.

• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing additional annual leave
• Access to staff health and wellbeing support
• Personal development and career progression
• Staff discount schemes and other benefits, e.g., cycle‑to‑work scheme
• Flexible working and family‑friendly policies

We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the essential criteria and are registered on our redeployment pool.

You will be asked about your nationality and if you are legally allowed to work in the United Kingdom. This is to find out if you are eligible to apply for this vacancy, a requirement for working within the Council or partner organisations:  If you do not meet the eligibility criteria your application will not progress. If it becomes clear at a later stage in the process that you are not eligible to apply, your application may be withdrawn, or the offer retracted.

09/07/2026, 08:00